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Happy Anniversary To March 26: Mr. & Mrs. Larry Bradt April 5: Mr. & Mrs. Ron Isenbart April 7: Mr. & Mrs. Pat McGinley, Mr. & Mrs. Dean Welty, Mr. & Mrs. Mark Nixon April 13: Mr. & Mrs. Travis Bradt (Note: Send corrections, additions to: freedomcallnews@gmail.com or call 800-305-2111)... Full story
Happy Birthday To March 26: Roger Wagner, Travis Bradt March 27 Teresa Wares, Brett Sample, Misty Parker, Sharon Snow, Brent Bowers March 28: Teresa Wares, Brett Sample, Misty Parker, Sharon Snow, Brent Bowers March 29: Leo Tolle, Kenzlie Bourassa, Dustin Rankin March 30: Taelyn Eagan, Bryan Powers, Robert Babcock, Lonn Reutlinger, Kurtis Woodard, Maxine Gassett March 31: Sheldon Darnell April 1: Monte Hepner, Travis Olson April 2: Kareron Wilson, Eileen Gay, Colleen McGinley, Lisa Hepner April 3: Joshua Shreeve, Chuck Armantrout, Kaylin... Full story
As of this advisory (Thursday, March 25), there are 164 positive cases of COVID-19 in Oklahoma. New counties with cases include Adair, Bryan, Carter, Creek, Delaware, Osage, Pottawatomie and Stephens. There are an additional two deaths, both from Oklahoma County: one male in his 70s and one male in his 40s. The Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) has been working aggressively to establish four satellite testing locations in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Kay and Pittsburg counties. To effectively develop a large-scale, statewide, satellite testing... Full story
OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Mike Hunter today issued a consumer alert after receiving reports of individuals attempting to sell at-home tests for the coronavirus. Attorney General Hunter said Oklahomans need to be on high alert for scam artists trying to sell or administer home-testing kits for COVID-19. “There are currently no credible test kits on the market for the coronavirus that someone can administer in their home,” Attorney General Hunter said. “Additionally, no health care provider, or other individual credentialed to adminis... Full story
The statewide candidate filing period begins at 8 a.m. Wednesday, April 8, said Sandra Koehn, Secretary of the Woods County Election Board. Filing will be from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. The deadline for filing as a candidate is 5 p.m. Friday, April 10th, no exceptions. Candidates for state offices file with the Secretary of the State Election Board in Oklahoma City. Candidates for county offices file with the Secretary of the County Election Board. Koehn said that the following county offices will be filled this year:...
ALVA, Okla. – As the threat of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic continues to strengthen, the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association last week decided to cancel the remaining events on the 2019-20 regional season. For Northwestern Oklahoma State University and the other colleges in the Central Plains Region season, that means the March 13-15 event in Fort Scott, Kansas, was the last event for this campaign, thereby eliminating the final four events in the circuit. “At this point, it means we’re done for the season,” said Stockton Graves,...
Each step taken by public officials to reduce the spread of the coronavirus in Oklahoma raises questions around what is banned and what's just a recommendation. Gov. Kevin Stitt issued orders Tuesday that include requiring vulnerable populations to stay at home until April 30 except for essential trips, and the closure of all nonessential businesses in the 19 counties that have a confirmed case of COVID-19. Closures would lat for 21 days beginning at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. Many cities in... Full story
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma State Board of Education voted Wednesday to close public schools statewide for the remainder of the school year and to turn to distance learning in an effort to limit the spread of the coronavirus, which has now infected 164 Oklahomans. The vote came as the state Department of Health reported an increase in the number of cases from 106 on Tuesday and the number of deaths from three to five. Closing schools and implementing distance learning, which had been prohibited in the state, are “drastic steps” but are n... Full story
FAIRLAND, Okla. (AP) — A man shot and killed one man and wounded two others, including a state trooper, in far northeast Oklahoma, authorities said Wednesday. Edwin Ball, 48, was taken into custody after he barricaded himself inside his home in Fairland, about 80 miles northeast of Tulsa near the state's borders with Missouri and Kansas, the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and Oklahoma Highway Patrol said in a joint statement. Ball shot and killed Brendan Van Zwell, 25, and wounded a second man who had arrived at Ball's home Tuesday n...
TULSA, Okla., March 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- While forced business closures cause hundreds of thousands of layoffs in the restaurant industry, two Oklahoma-based work tech software companies are collaborating to help workers get re-employed, in new industries. This new service will provide a free Job-Fit assessment and a Me in 3 video profile account to all displaced workers. The assessment will help displaced workers see what other types of jobs they could be a good fit for and it provides them with a specific job fit report for up to 70...
BELTON, Mo. (AP) — A man fatally injured by the FBI was planning a bomb attack on a medical facility in the Kansas City area, the agency said in a news release Wednesday. Timothy Wilson, 36, was injured Tuesday when FBI agents served a probable cause arrest warrant in Belton after a long-running domestic terrorism investigation, according to a statement Wednesday from Timothy Langan, special agent in charge of the FBI's Kansas City office. The statement did not detail what happened when agents served the warrant, but said Wilson was armed w...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' top public health official on Wednesday chided residents looking to "wriggle around" local stay-at-home orders meant to check the spread of the novel coronavirus, and Gov. Laura Kelly said the U.S. government should require industries to manufacture medical supplies. The state reported 126 confirmed cases, a jump of 28 cases in a single day, but the total didn't include three confirmed cases announced later Wednesday by hospitals and local health officials in Topeka. The state has had three COVID-19-related deaths in...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Athletics Inc. contends in a newly unsealed court filing it has evidence former football coach David Beaty "allowed and encouraged NCAA violations" while at the University of Kansas. The 66-page memo, which was filed by university attorneys in January and unsealed this past week, also said those alleged violations have "resulted in several hundred thousand" dollars in legal fees for Kansas Athletics. The filing includes transcripts of interviews with players and members of the football staff the university says s...
JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — An squirrel knocked out power to residences near the state governor's mansion, Alaska electric company officials said. The squirrel was interfering with equipment when the temporary loss of electrical service happened in Juneau Monday, The Juneau Empire reported. "Our crews were on site very quickly, and found it not alive," said Debbie Driscoll, Alaska Electric Light and Power vice president of consumer affairs. The squirrel generated a problem with fuses and sparked the power outage experienced by 15 customers. "...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York authorities mobilized to head off a potential public health disaster in the city Wednesday, with its emergence as the nation's biggest coronavirus hot spot a warning flare — and perhaps a cautionary tale — for the rest of the country. A makeshift morgue was set up outside Bellevue Hospital, and the city's police, their ranks dwindling as more fall ill, were told to patrol nearly empty streets to enforce social distancing. Public health officials hunted down beds and medical equipment and put out a call for more docto...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate scrambled to unravel last-minute snags Wednesday night and win passage of an unparalleled $2 trillion economic rescue package steering aid to businesses, workers and health care systems engulfed by the coronavirus pandemic. The 883-page measure is the largest economic relief bill in U.S. history, and both parties' leaders were desperate for quick passage as the virus took lives and jobs by the hour. The Senate stayed in session in anticipation of still passing the bill after days of delays. Insistently o... Full story
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government has concluded that retired FBI agent Robert Levinson, who vanished more than a decade ago, died while in the custody of Iran, his family and administration officials said Wednesday. The circumstances and timing of Levinson's death was unclear, but White House national security adviser Robert O'Brien said Wednesday evening that the U.S. believes Levinson "may have passed away some time ago." Hours earlier, his family said information that U.S. officials had received had led them to conclude that he was d...
President Trump was urging passage of an unprecedented aid package as Senate leaders grappled with last-minute snags in the emergency legislation to rush aid totaling some $2 trillion in assistance to businesses, workers and a health care system slammed by the coronavirus pandemic. New York authorities mobilized to head off a potential public health disaster, which has emerged as a kind of a warning flare for the crisis in America as the overall U.S. death toll passed 900. India's 1.3 billion people joined the global lockdown, and Prince... Full story
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The man who committed the worst atrocity in New Zealand's modern history when he slaughtered 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques unexpectedly pleaded guilty to all charges Thursday. The attacks targeting people praying at the mosques a year ago shocked the nation and prompted new laws banning the deadliest types of semi-automatic weapons. It also prompted global changes to social media protocols after the gunman livestreamed his attack on Facebook, where it was viewed by hundreds of thousands of people. T...
BOSTON (AP) — "Full House" Actress Lori Loughlin, her fashion designer husband, Mossimo Giannulli, and other prominent parents urged a judge Wednesday to dismiss charges against them in the college admissions bribery case, accusing prosecutors of "extraordinary" misconduct. Defense attorneys for the the famous couple and other parents still fighting the charges say the case cannot stand because investigators bullied their informant into lying and then concealed evidence that would bolster the parents' claims of innocence. "The extraordinary gov...
A 33-year-old American woman running out of her life-saving medication to treat her auto-immune disease finally boarded a flight home Wednesday after being stuck in Peru for about 10 days, but hundreds of other U.S. citizens remained stranded after the South American nation closed its borders due to the coronavirus pandemic. "I could not be happier," Anna, who requested that her last name not be made public due to privacy concerns related to her medical condition, said after getting on the plane in Cusco. At the same time, it was bittersweet....
WASHINGTON (AP) — Pressure was mounting on the Trump administration Wednesday to release people from immigration detention facilities where at least one detainee has tested positive for COVID-19 and advocates fear tight quarters and overall conditions could cause rapid spread of the virus. The U.S. holds around 37,000 people in immigration detention. Detainees and advocates say many are vulnerable because of age and pre-existing medical conditions, and because they are often held in open rooms, beds 3-feet apart, and without adequate s... Full story
CHICAGO (AP) — Hours before his first shift cooking for people with mild cases of COVID-19 who are being quarantined in a downtown Chicago hotel, Jose Gonzalez made a plan to protect his family from the coronavirus. Chicago's plan to reserve at least 1,000 hotel rooms through partnerships with five hotels is the first such sweeping strategy unveiled in the U.S. aimed at relieving the pressure on hospitals that are the only option for the seriously sick. But it will assuredly not be the last. Government officials nationwide are searching for f...
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Barely a week ago, David McGraw was cooking daily for hundreds of fine diners at one of New Orleans' illustrious restaurants. Today, he's cooking for himself, at home — laid off along with hundreds of thousands of people across the U.S. in a massive economic upheaval spurred by efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus. U.S. Department of Labor figures to be released Thursday are expected to shatter the old record for the greatest number of new unemployment claims filed in a single week. There are more suddenly jobless Am...
